What films, people, visual effects, songs, soundtracks and hair styling skills –  will be awarded with Oscars at today’s Oscars ceremony? I rolled the dice – right after the nominees were announced back in January –  to find out!

So what movies/people do I think will win Oscars tonight? I honestly don’t know! The only Oscar nominated movies I saw from 2019 were The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, both of which I enjoyed. Except I thought the ending of The Irishman was kind of “Return of the King-ed” a bit! Don’t know what I mean by that? Well, I just thought the movie should have ended at one point, but extended on another 40 minutes or so (its run time is listed as 3 hours/30 minutes). King of like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King‘s ending

Obviously having too long of a run time doesn’t affect a movie’s chances of winning the best picture Oscar, if films such as Gone with the Wind (3 hours 58 minutes), Titanic (3 hours 15 minutes) and…Return of the King (3 hours 48 minutes)-  are any indicator! GWTW is still the longest running movie of all time to have won the best picture Oscar, according to this list on imdb.

I remember having sat through the whole 3 hour 20 minute run time of the 1981 movie Reds when that was in theaters (I wasn’t quite 10 yet). That movie didn’t take the best picture Oscar for that year, but Chariots of Fire did. I was chatting about things like this with a friend not too long ago, and he was appalled when I said my mom took me and my brother to see the best picture winning movie Kramer v. Kramer. That was how my parents rolled! It wasn’t an entirely bad thing…occasionally that exposure to movies in my youth will help out on a trivia night!

But – in my parents’ defense, there weren’t a heck of a lot of “kiddie” movies to take kids to see in those days! Also, kids tended to “outgrow” kiddie movies a lot sooner than they do now. The Fox and the Hound (1981) was probably the last “kiddie” movie I saw in theaters – which made my sentimental animal-loving mom bawl like a baby!

The two dice I used to predict the 2020 Oscar winners – a 10-sided die – and a six-sided die.

But let’s get back to the blog topic at hand, shall we? Here’s how I randomly “picked” the Oscar winners for tonight – the 10-sided die was only used once – to roll for the best picture winner. I used a six-sided die to determine the other winners – re-rolling only if a 6 came up (which only happened once).

Read on to see which “winners” were picked randomly by my multi-sided dice! If you can think of a better way to pick Oscar winners, I’d like to hear it (LOL)!

My die roll predictions for the “winners” will be denoted in boldface type. 

BEST PICTURE

BEST ACTOR – LEADING ROLE

BEST ACTRESS – LEADING ROLE

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

BEST SOUND EDITING

BEST SOUND MIXING

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

BEST FILM EDITING

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING